Video: Adhoc Interview with Skewville
Great little interview clip with Skewville.
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Global Graphica
November 14, 2007
June 08, 2007
The Story of "The Splasher"
Since late autumn 2006, around the time of the final, great explosion of street art at 11 Spring St. in Nolita, in downtown New York City, we started to notice that a lot of work by some well-known street artists was suddenly being defaced with splashes of paint. Works by Swoon, Shepard Fairey, Faile and many others were attacked with bright colors of paint that appeared to have been intentionally splashed on to the work. The paint never covered the pieces completely -- the underlying art was always identifiable. The mysterious person(s) defacing the art was dubbed "The Splasher." The atttacks continued through the winter and spring months that followed. Only recently have we noticed that "The Splasher" has slowed down.
New York Magazine chronicles and investigates the mystery in
a recent article. The irony of the Splasher's attacks is that they amount to a form of vandalism upon vandalism itself. Most street art is destruction of property in the eyes of the law. The paint splashes can also, as some have pointed out, be construed as an act of art in and of itself, as a crude, shocking commentary upon the street art it targets.
Ivan Corsa Photo
Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera
On the iPod: The Rakes - "22 Grand Job"
Kicks on our feet: Adidas "Marun"
March 13, 2007
Faile on Elizabeth St., Nolita, NYC
Ivan Corsa Photo
Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera
On the iPod: Deerhoof - "+81"
Kicks on our feet: Puma "Easy Rider" Sneakers
Faile on Elizabeth St., Nolita, NYC - Storefront
Ivan Corsa Photo
Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera
On the iPod: Deerhoof - "+81"
Kicks on our feet: Puma "Easy Rider" Sneakers
Faile on Elizabeth St., Nolita, NYC - Widescreen
Ivan Corsa Photo
Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera
On the iPod: Deerhoof - "+81"
Kicks on our feet: Puma "Easy Rider" Sneakers
March 23, 2005
Street Art by Faile: "Michael" in SoHo
The artist(s) who goes by the name Faile is among the stars of the global street art underground. This artists work takes several forms, but the most striking are wheat-paste posters like the above image, wwhich we snapped in the SoHo lofts district, in New York City. In this case, the subject is the mega-famous celebrity Michael Jackson, who the media have called King of Pop. The Michael depicted in this poster looks like the early 1980's-era Michael of "Billie Jean" and "Thriller" fame. Faile has explained in "Street Logos," Tristan Manco's excellent book on street art, that artists use methods similar to advertisers and brand strategists and that images artists create -- like those created by marketers -- can be powerful because they can communicate so much with so few words.
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